Parent fundraising will bring athletic facility to high school in South Elgin, Ill.

From The Chicago Tribune: South Elgin (Ill.) High School's home field is seven miles from its campus. Built without a sports stadium, the school must dispatch its teams, band and spectators to Streamwood High, whose field serves as home turf for three high schools in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. So a group of parents is working to raise more than $3 million to build it themselves. The South Elgin High School Booster Foundation has taken the first step, rustling up $500,000 to pay for the construction of 1,500 bleacher seats, a sound system and a scoreboard that will enable the school to host games on campus next year.